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tzalantli.

Headword: 
tzalantli.
Principal English Translation: 

passageway, opening between things (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzālantli
IPAspelling: 
tsɑːlɑntɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TZĀLAN-TLI passageway, opening between things / abra, quebrada de sierras o cañada (M) [(2)Cf.20r]. M gives this as tzallantli with geminate LL contrasting with single L in the postposition –TZĀLAN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 311.

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